How big the flakes are
perhaps to mask
their impotence--
they smack against
the sidewalk
melt and bleed
into the pavement.
They cling to nascent buds
totems of their death.
But...this is something
we all know
when the snow first came--
it will end in rain.
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Reviews of "Swan Song Snow"
Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on March 31, 2003
True.
Reviewed by Calendula Petal (Reader)
Reviewed on March 31, 2003
A beautiful write, but I didnt see any snow this year, just rain rain and more rain.
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